Time Problem in 5.0

[Toni Schmidbauer]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:44:13AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 01:56:35AM +0530, Shantanu Mahajan wrote:
> > 	Hi!
> > 	I am useing 5.0R.
> > 
> > 	> date;sleep 1;date
> > 	Fri Apr 25 01:53:44 IST 2003
> > 	Fri Apr 25 01:53:46 IST 2003
> > 	>
> > 
> > 	I am not able to figure out the problem. any
> > 	comments?
> 
> What's the problem? Along the system-load, context switching,
> process-startup, you're bound to get slippage.

yeah, i think thats the reason.

i would try "time sleep 1". on my 4.8 box i am getting:

time sleep 1

real    0m1.023s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.004s

would be interesting how long i takes on -current.

toni
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